Bodhidharma was from the Brahman caste of South India and honored as the 28th Patriarch of Buddhism. During the period of the Southern Dynasty (520～527A.D.), he made his way to Guangzhou of China by sea. Later he crossed the Yangtze River on a reed reaching Luoyang, and then resided at Songshan Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng. Here he meditated gazing at wall in a small cave of the Wuru Peak for nine years, eventually initiated Chinese Chan Buddhism. He then preached the doctrine of Two Entrances and Four Practices and the cultivating approach of “Wall-gazing”, which have become the core of Shaolin Chan sect. Therefore Bodhidharma was regarded as the founder of Chinese Chan Buddhism and also the first Patriarch of Shaolin Chan Buddhism.